English 11

Your Macbeth test on Thursday will consist of a matching section where characters are matched to important events or descriptors (from all five acts) and a quotation section where students will be asked to identify speakers and/or be asked questions about the meanings or contexts of the quotes.  Most of the quotations come from the first three acts.

The best way to study for the is to go over the study guide notes.

English 8

We have finished The Outsiders, so we will do review activities tomorrow and write the test on Wednesday.  Tonight, fill in the review sheet given out in class today.  The test will consist of the following sections:
1. true/false
2. fill in the blanks
3. multiple choice
4. short answers
5. two paragraph questions

You will be asked questions on the plot, character, theme and all other ordinary story concepts that we learned in the short story unit. 

The students will also hand in one full page of neat, proofread newspaper copy on Monday, Dec. 17th (not Friday Dec. 14 as stated on the assignment handout).  All students who hand in appropriate copy will have their work published in a class newspaper on The Outsiders.

The newspaper writing assignments are as follows:

1. Naomi: Front page and Why Socs and Greasers fight
2. Yasamin: Girls who love gang members interview
3. Drayden: Johnny jumped by Socs
4. Shion:  Curtis boys can stay together
5. Samantha: Photo essay
6. Reide: Advice column
7. Olivia: Teen heroes rushed to hospital
8. Thomas: Obituary for Johnny
9. Sara:  Ponyboy gets jumped
10. Hayden: Johnny kills Bob
11. Capri: Fashion and word search
12. Finn: Comics
13. Toma: Comics and Rap Sheet (with Seamus)
14. Seamus: Comics and Rap Sheet (with Toma)
15. Brook: Food
16. Allie:  Food
17. Abby: Restaurant review
18. Nicholas: Special Event ad
19. Arianna: Horoscopes (with Laleh) and obituary for Bob Shelton
20. Laleh: Horoscopes (with Arianna) and obituary for Dallas Winston
21. Sage: Soc and Greaser Rumble
22. Jennifer: Sports
23. Lene: Classified/crossword

Students who have questions about their assigned stories need to see me before Friday.  I am happy to give further individual explanation of this.

English 11

We will finish answering the Act II questions on Monday.  This weekend, though, collect one example each of a metaphor, a simile, personification, and a hyperbole from anywhere in Act II.  Also, try to find an example of understatement and an example of paradox from that act if you can.